Edge Cases
A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 128
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2015
Edge Cases 88: Tuple for Your Thoughts?
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the simplest of things, the tuple: what it is, how it is used in other languages (specifically Python), and how, in an alternate universe, it could brin…
00:46:55 |
Sat 12 Apr 2014
Edge Cases 87: JavaScript Plus Square Brackets
Wolf Rentzsch talks to guest cohost Gus Mueller about Cocoa Script. An evolution of his earlier effort, JSTalk, Cocoa Script is Gus's sane Mac app scripting alternative to AppleScript, based on JavaS…
00:42:51 |
Fri 04 Apr 2014
Edge Cases 86: Andrew’s Blogroll in the Post-Blog Era
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the developer blogs he follows via RSS: the ones that have died/gone fallow/transformed, the ones he's added recently, and the ones that seem to be tryi…
00:54:58 |
Sat 29 Mar 2014
Edge Cases 85: A Fan of Ravioli Code
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about programming pasta: disorganized "spaghetti" code, multi-layered "lasagna" code, and conceptually-separated "ravioli" code (his favorite). Bonus: new GitHu…
00:46:30 |
Sun 23 Mar 2014
Edge Cases 84: A Couple of Maxims, a Couple of Aphorisms
Andrew Pontious talks to Wolf Rentzsch about the three maxims he gleaned from Evan Doll’s interview on the Debug podcast: code is a liability, ship the right bugs, and (paraphrased) don’t impose unne…
00:50:42 |
Sat 15 Mar 2014
Edge Cases 83: Floating Point Numbers Are a Leaky Abstraction
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about floating point numbers: how they work, why they're weird, and when you definitely shouldn't use them (hint: mo money mo problems).
00:47:54 |
Sat 08 Mar 2014
Edge Cases 82: Asset Catalogs
Andrew Pontious stumps Wolf Rentzsch not once, but repeatedly, by talking about asset catalogs, new in Xcode 5. But in turn *he* is stumped attempting to backport them to earlier OSes.
00:43:32 |
Sat 01 Mar 2014
Edge Cases 81: The Only Cool Thing About PDF
Wolf Rentzsch tries to keep up with Andrew "The Joneses" Pontious and introduces JRPDFLabel, his new…*innovative* project that allow you to use custom fonts in Interface Builder without having to bun…
00:35:58 |
Sun 23 Feb 2014
Edge Cases 80: Xcode Templates
Andrew Pontious, with guest cohost Josh Johnson, talks about Xcode project and file templates.
00:40:45 |
Sat 15 Feb 2014
Edge Cases 79: ClickToFlash: Behind the Music
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about how he unexpectedly came to lead the popular and award-winning Safari plugin ClickToFlash, and how, after a wild ride, the project both ended and continue…
00:38:21 |
Sat 08 Feb 2014
Edge Cases 78: Indexing with Clang
Andrew Pontious describes to Wolf Rentzsch his efforts to use libclang to index his Xcode projects, using his new (and barely functional) Chime framework.
00:48:08 |
Sun 02 Feb 2014
Edge Cases 77: Prototype-Based Programming
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about his *other* favorite thing, prototype-based programming, and examples of it such as Self, NewtonScript, Io, and, yes, JavaScript. Plus: the dunder is back…
00:43:37 |
Sat 25 Jan 2014
Edge Cases 76: Let's Try iCloud Syncing
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the cool aspects and the frustrating aspects of Apple's iCloud document syncing. Plus: Wolf disses HyperCard!
00:42:59 |
Sat 18 Jan 2014
Edge Cases 75: A Few of My Favorite Things
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about two of his favorite things, live development objects and Code Bubbles. Plus: revisiting Microsoft's Singularity.
00:46:12 |
Sat 11 Jan 2014
Edge Cases 74: Accessibility
Andrew Pontious along with Wolf Rentzsch delves into Apple's accessibility APIs for iOS.
00:45:42 |
Sat 28 Dec 2013
Edge Cases 73: Sequential Consistency
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about sequential consistency and memory models by dressing up Andrew as a Processor and himself as Main Memory. Special involuntary cameo by Daniel Jalkut the C…
00:47:43 |
Sun 22 Dec 2013
Edge Cases 72: It's Not Just Code, It's Unicode
Andrew Pontious talks hexy to Wolf Rentzsch by going on at length about Unicode: its design, its planes (astral and otherwise), and its UTF-16 and UTF-8 encodings. Plus: backup followup.
00:47:37 |
Fri 13 Dec 2013
Edge Cases 71: Libraries vs Collaborating Objects
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about software interface design, using jQuery's Ajax functionality as an example of a "library" API style and NSURLConnection as an example of a "collaborating …
00:55:47 |
Sun 08 Dec 2013
Edge Cases 70: Android Is Like Moving to France
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about taking the very first steps to try to develop for Android, including why he's thinking about it, why companies like Eclipse even if he doesn't, and why …
00:45:40 |
Sat 23 Nov 2013
Edge Cases 69: The Time Machine Worst-Case Scenario
Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about backup. Topics include Time Machine, the sadness of Time Capsule, SuperDuper, clonedrive (Wolf's own software), CrashPlan, Backblaze, and Arq.
00:54:20 |
Sat 16 Nov 2013
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